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Derek Turner
@derekturner.bsky.social
Responsible for three novels, a well-regarded cultural history of Lincolnshire ('Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire'), and a large corpus of hack-work (some at www.derek-turner.com). Recently completed a book about English local identities
VERY honoured to be featured as part of this long-running series put together by the enviably erudite and admirably public-spirited Mathew Lyons!
New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @derekturner.bsky.social. Featuring Sir Thomas Browne, Elizabeth Bowen and all manner of highways and by-ways.
The writer's bookshelf: Derek Turner
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My 'Engelsberg Ideas' review of 'The Sound Atlas' by Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen - engelsbergideas.com/reviews/musi...
Musica universalis
The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Derek Turner
The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.

Musica universalis | @derekturner.bsky.social

engelsbergideas.com/reviews/musi...
Musica universalis
The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.
engelsbergideas.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Derek Turner
With #Lincolnshire making headlines recently as a hotbed for the so-called right wing Reform party, now is a good time to revisit my review of Derek Turner's @derekturner.bsky.social‬ evocative book.

Read on - there's more to it than you might imagine!

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England’s forgotten county
Topical comment and travel writing
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June 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fog over Lincolnshire
January 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The Louth Canal, Sunday - a well-mannered brick house set amid foggy and sopping fens and watercourses, like a vignetter from the 18th c. Netherlands
January 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Graveyard-sharing churches - St Adelwold's, Alvingham (L), the only church dedicated to Adelwold - and St Mary's, North Cockerington, burial place of Barnabe Googe. Nearby are the mounds of Alvingham Priory, a Gilbertine foundation (Gilbert was the only Englishman ever to found a monastic order)
January 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I was always conscious of the deficiencies of my Concise DNB (3 vols), so when I saw for sale a complete set of the 1908-1911 edition (22 vols), plus 11 supplements taking me up to the 1990s, I was not going to leave without several extremely heavy boxes (although I did haggle successfully)
December 11, 2024 at 11:42 AM
The front garden is seething with small lives eating seeds and suet - blackbirds, chaffinches, collared doves, dunnocks, goldfinches, jackdaws, robins, sparrows, starlings and wood pigeons, all periodically scattering to make way for promenading magpies, putting all to flight by sheer presence
December 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM
For sale. We are told it is an "ornament," which was wise of the vendor, because otherwise we might not have known
December 4, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Halfway through my book! Farewelling Michael Drayton, and his excellent 'Poly-Olbion' (1611-1622)
December 2, 2024 at 4:46 PM
My review of Giles Sparrow's 'Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas' www.derek-turner.com/2024/11/27/s...
Starlight expression
Phænomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas Giles Sparrow, London: Thames & Hudson, 2022, 255pp., £50 Johann Doppelmayr (1677-1750) spent most of his life in Nuremberg, but had a European reputation f...
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November 27, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Ponderable ephemera found in a charity shop - souvenirs of a 1971 trip to Andorra by one Raphael Caves and family (the paper wallet also contained a leaflet on St George's Chapel, Windsor)
November 25, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Revisiting 'Poly-Olbion' by Michael Drayton, mythmaker for Jacobean England
November 25, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Presently with Izaak Walton (imaginatively, for my book) on the banks of the Dove in summer - not a bad place to be when it's 0 degrees outside
November 21, 2024 at 11:25 AM
A third of the way through my book! Time for lunch
November 19, 2024 at 11:44 AM